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Dr. Claudia Molina, originally from Mexico, is a proud first-generation college student and McNair Scholar. She holds a B.A. in Spanish for Global Competence with minors in Psychology and Mexican American Studies from the University of Texas at Arlington (2017). She went on to earn both her M.A. (2020) and Ph.D. (2025) in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UCLA. Her dissertation, Animals in Contemporary Mexican Women’s Fiction, examines the works of Carmen Báez, Rosario Castellanos, Ángeles Mastretta, and Guadalupe Nettel, exploring how sociocultural attitudes shape their representations of the animal world. Her research has been published in the Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea.